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Here's the Navy's troubled plan for rescuing its failed 'ship-of-the-future'
When former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel paused littoral combat ship contract negotiations in 2014 to look at alternatives to the vessel, some thought it portended the early end of a ship maligned for...
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Russia is putting state-of-the-art missiles in its westernmost Baltic exclave
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles in its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games to showcase its resurgent...
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The US provided air cover for Iraqi militias accused of later burning down...
The US-led coalition air war against ISIS has a human rights blemish. In August, the US provided aerial support as Iraqi security forces, Iranian-backed Shiite militias, and Kurdish Peshmerga pushed...
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Russia is modernizing its increasingly aggressive air force
Russia's air force has problems. Although Moscow has the world's second-largest air force, which includes strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons thousands of miles around the world, its...
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A Russia-Ukraine peace plan just hit another snag
KIEV (Reuters) - A peace plan to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine came under renewed strain on Wednesday, with Ukraine and Russia clashing publicly over the next steps and further Ukrainian military...
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The Navy's fund to build a next-generation nuclear attack submarine doesn't...
The Navy and Congress have yet to find money for a newly created account designed to pay for the services’ fleet of next-generation nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines slated to begin service in...
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Russia wants everyone to think it's building this absurd and massive...
Russia's proposed new military transport will be a behemoth of an aircraft — assuming such a plane can even fly, and if Russia is even vaguely serious about actually building it.According to Kremlin...
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Tunisia is facing a huge and growing jihadist problem
The Islamic State has reportedly claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack at the Bardo museum in Tunis. The SITE Intelligence Group has obtained a 3-minute audio message, as well as a written...
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This is what it's like to feel zero-gravity aboard NASA’s ‘vomit comet’
Way back in the early ‘90s, when I was a US Navy lieutenant serving as the editor of Approach magazine (Naval Aviation’s Safety review), I was invited by NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd to come down to...
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Shinzo Abe to become first Japanese PM to address joint session of US Congress
Washington (AFP) - Shinzo Abe is expected to become the first Japanese prime minister in history to address a joint session of the US Congress, crowning an April visit focused on deepening trade and...
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Pentagon: Here are all the problems with the F-35
The US military's fifth-generation fighter is no stranger to controversy. The F-35, which comes with an estimated $1.5 trillion pricetag over the life of the program, has faced numerous hurdles and...
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A chilling look inside a former Soviet gulag
At the height of the gulag system, millions of Russians were imprisoned and put into forced labor. The gulag system housed citizens ranging from wayward peasants to political dissidents. Each year...
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This map shows where the world's 3 biggest arms exporters are sending their...
The US, Russia, and China are the world's largest arms exporters. They took the largest slices of a growing pie: The global arms trade was 16% larger in 2010-2014 than it was in 2005-2009, according to...
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US air defense troops are training rapid deployment of advanced missile...
SOCHACZEW, Poland (AP) — U.S. air defense troops are training rapid deployment of Patriot missile launchers in Poland amid concerns that the conflict between Russia-backed rebels and government forces...
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Top NATO commander: The West is losing the information war
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO's supreme commander says the West must do more to counter Russia by employing a rapid-reaction approach to internet communications that counteracts Russia's "false narratives"...
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Iran is trying to build an empire, and it could end in disaster
BEIRUT (Reuters) - With Iran moving closer to a deal with world powers to constrain its nuclear program in return for an end to sanctions, Arab analysts and leaders are focused more on how Tehran is...
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Russia controls this vital strategic exclave in the heart of NATO-allied...
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is a political and geographic anomaly. Separated from Russia and situated on the Baltic Sea, the region is surrounded by NATO-member states Poland and Lithuania. It's...
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Libya's civil war is the only conflict in the Middle East where both sides...
The airspace over Libya is getting crowded.Since mid-2014, the country has been divided between two rival factions: the House of Representative (HOR) and its supporters in Operation Dignity and the...
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I was in the CIA for 25 years — Here's how I explained my job to my kids
Ralph W. McGehee is a veteran of two and a half decades with the Central Intelligence Agency. McGehee was recruited in 1952 and stationed in Southeast Asia in the mid-1960s. “Dad, what do you do?” my...
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Air Force veteran Chuck Norris wants to save the A-10
Air Force leaders wanting to send the A-10 Thunderbolt to the bone yard already have any number of lawmakers criticizing them from Capitol Hill.Now they’ve got “Lone Wolf McQuade” coming after...
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